Thursday, March 30, 2017

2016 Canadian UFO Survey Released

News Release:
2016 Canadian UFO Survey30
March 2017

UFOs haven’t gone away:

Number of UFO reports still high

The results of the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey have been
released, and despite an apparent quiescence in media, UFO sightings are still
being reported at a near-record level. In
2016, 1,131 UFO reports were officially filed in Canada, the fifth year in a
row above 1,000 cases.

Since the annual Canadian UFO Survey was initiated in
1989, 18,038 Canadian UFO reports have
been catalogued during the past 28 years. This is much more than the files
of the United States Air Force’s infamous Project Blue Book, which investigated
and recorded 12,618 UFO reports from around the world between 1947 and 1969.

This data clearly contradicts comments by those who would
assert that UFOs are a ‘passing fad’ or that UFO sightings are decreasing in
number.

In 2016, Most UFO reports were recorded during the summer
with June, July and August having a combined 37.7 per cent of all cases. Most UFOs were simple lights in the
sky, known as Nocturnal Lights (54.9 per cent), and Close Encounters comprised
less than one per cent of the total.

The provinces with
the largest populations also tended to have the most UFO reports: Ontario
(26.3 per cent), BC (17.2 per cent), but Quebec had a significantly unusual
overabundance of UFO reports in 2016 (38.5 per cent).

The most popular
shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light (57 per
cent). Other shapes reported were Triangle (4 per cent), Ball (9 per cent),
Cigar (3 per cent) and Fireball (5 per cent). The classic “flying saucer” was
only reported 48 times (5 per cent) in 2016.

The percentage of
UFO cases considered Unexplained in 2016 has dropped to 4 per cent, the lowest
in 28 years of study. This is likely a result of more careful scrutiny of
raw report information available.

It should be emphasized the classification of Unknown does
not imply alien visitation. Each case may still have an explanation following
further investigation. And of those that remain unexplained, they may remain
unexplained, but still are not incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial
intervention or some mysterious natural phenomenon.

The Canadian UFO Survey is produced by Ufology Research,
based in Manitoba, with the cooperation of investigators and researchers across
the country.